Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2012-10025

48
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-10025 describes a critical remote file inclusion (RFI) vulnerability in the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin, versions 3.5.1 and below. This flaw, present in core/actions/export.php, allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary remote PHP code by manipulating the acf_abspath POST parameter, provided the PHP allow_url_include directive is enabled. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability enables full compromise of the web server. Exploit code is publicly available via a Metasploit module, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential for exploitation, despite not being listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Advanced Custom FieldsWordPress Plugin
>= 0, <= 3.5.1CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

10.0CRITICAL

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
HIGH
SS Integrity
HIGH
SS Availability
HIGH
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: WordPress Plugin Advanced Custom Fields Remote File Inclusion · Nov 14, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0128 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

raw.githubusercontent.com / rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/wp_advanced_custom_fields_exec.rb
wordpress.org / plugins/advanced-custom-fields
wpscan.com / vulnerability/d132d93b-509c-490d-8001-87147ed28c5e
exploit-db.com / exploits/23856
tenable.com / plugins/nessus/63326
vulncheck.com / advisories/wordpress-plugin-advanced-custom-fields-remote-file-inclusion
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/advanced-custom-fields/advanced-custom-fields-351-remote-code-execution-via-remote-file-inclusion
web.archive.org / web/20121223025326/http://secunia.com:80/advisories/51037